TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 203642 [ 2024TNSTR.580....1H ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-03-02 23:34:30
Date made public:
Sender: DESIRT_Bot
Reporting Group: DESIRT     Discovery Data Source: DESIRT

Lei Hu (Carnegie Mellon U.), Brendan O'Connor (Carnegie Mellon U.), Antonella Palmese (Carnegie Mellon U.), Yuhan Chen (UC Berkeley), Aidan Catalano (Carnegie Mellon U.), Xingzhuo Chen (Texas A&M U.), Lifan Wang (Texas A&M U.), Tomás Cabrera (Carnegie Mellon U.), Keerthi Kunnumkai (Carnegie Mellon U.), Konstantin Malanchev (Carnegie Mellon U.), Veronica Diaz (Carnegie Mellon U.) on behalf of DESIRT Collaboration report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2024dpf
Discoverer internal name: A202401071118498m071746
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 11:18:49.768 (169.70736652863) DEC = -07:17:46.25 (-7.2961814196708)
Discovery date: 2024-01-07 08:08:47.616 (JD=2460316.8394361)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-01-07 08:08:47.616
Flux: 22.5768 ABMag
Filter: g-Sloan
Instrument: DECAM
Telescope: CTIO - 4-m Victor M. Blanco Telescope

Last non-detection:
Archival info: Other
Remarks: DECam Legacy Survey

Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2024dpf